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September 29, 2006

Why is it always the congressmen and religious leaders who are into the freaky stuff?HP recommendation: Vote Every Incumbent Out (especially the sicko two-faced hypocritical right wing "family values" ones...)

Saying he was "deeply sorry," Congressman Mark Foley (R-FL) resigned from Congress today, hours after ABC News questioned him about sexually explicit internet messages with current and former congressional pages under the age of 18.

A spokesman for Foley, the chairman of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children, said the congressman submitted his resignation in a letter late this afternoon to Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert.

Hours earlier, ABC News had read excerpts of instant messages provided by former male pages who said the congressman, under the AOL Instant Messenger screen name Maf54, made repeated references to sexual organs and acts.

This is United States Congressman Mark FoleyHe voted this week for a law to allow hate groups to fire gay and lesbian people at willThe law he is supporting will overrule ANY local laws on the matter.MARK FOLEY IS GAYMARK FOLEY WILL BE EXPOSED FOR THE HYPOCRITE HE IS THROUGH A MAIL AND INTERNET CAMPAIGN THAT WILL REACH INTO EVERY HOME IN HIS DISTRICT.

THIS MAN IS A DANGER

TO GAY MEN AND LESBIANS

DO NOT SLEEP WITH THIS MANIF HE CRUISES YOU IN THE BATHROOMS OF CONGRESS,IGNORE HIM!IF HE HITS ON YOU AT THE NEXT REPUBLICAN CONVENTIONIGNORE HIM!

Foley has been one of the foremost critics in the House of child pornography. Foley is chairman of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children. He introduced a bill in 2002 to outlaw websites featuring sexually suggestive images of preteen children, saying that "these websites are nothing more than a fix for pedophiles."[6] In June 2003 he wrote letters to the governor and attorney general of Florida, asking them to review the legality of a program for teenagers of a Lake Como nudist resort in Land O'Lakes, Florida.[7]

Foley's legislation to change federal sex offender laws was supported by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, America's Most Wanted host John Walsh, and a number of victims' rights groups. President George W. Bush signed it into law as part of the Adam Walsh Child Safety and Protection Act of 2006.

Foley also succeeded in getting a law passed that allows volunteer youth-serving organizations like the Boy Scouts of America and Boys and Girls Clubs to have access to FBI fingerprint background checks to help protect children....

REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN Mark Foley of Florida thinks it’s "revolting and unforgivable" that people are openly speculating that he is gay. Revolting? Unforgivable? Is Foley serious? What’s revolting about being thought gay? What’s unforgivable about asking the question?

The five-term congressman should familiarize himself with the cool-straight-guy response to such speculation: thank the questioner for the flattery but then own up to heterosexual misdeeds like bad haircuts and mismatched clothing. Did Foley miss Ben Affleck’s elegant handling of persistent gay rumors? "I’m not stylish enough to be gay," Affleck said. "I have trouble trying to pick out which shoes go with which pants."

But then, that would only work if the 48-year-old congressman were heterosexual. Which he is not. Foley is gay. It’s one of those open secrets that’s more open than secret. It first came up during his initial run for Congress in 1994. A right-wing opponent in the GOP primary sent out a mailing saying that Foley was gay. Foley answered the accusation — and in this context, it was an accusation — by telling the media: "I like women."

Two years later, after Foley voted in favor of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), the Advocate outed him along with another closeted lawmaker, Congressman Jim Kolbe, who’d voted in favor of the anti-gay measure. Of Foley, Advocate reporter J. Jennings Moss wrote: "In interviews for this story, several people close to the 41-year-old from West Palm Beach described him as a gay man, although one also said he dated women." The magazine also spoke with former Navy lieutenant Tracy Thorne, who came out on national television during the gays-in-the-military debate. Thorne knew Foley because Thorne’s father was one of Foley’s staunchest supporters, dating back to Foley’s time in the Florida state legislature. Thorne matter-of-factly told the Advocate: "Mark Foley has spent his entire life in the closet."

1.) crossing the border without permission and commiting crimes while inside america.2.) using fake identification.3.) enjoying government entitlements not entitled to received.4.) assisting and abetting homebuyers to commit fraud (i.e. liar loans)5.) home buyers lying about their income to qualify for a loan6.) sucking all the retirement benefits or bankrupting a corporation by certain ceo & cfos (i.e. enron, worldcomm, etc.)7.) accepting bribes from government contractors (i.e. cunningham & abramoff case)8.) shooting an innocent high school student at bailey, colorado.9.) molesting an innocent and helpless child.10.) bombing the federal building in oklahoma.

so, what's the difference?

items 1 through 3 were committed by brown skinned people, while items 4 though 10 were committed by white people.

The page worked for Rep. Rodney Alexander (news, bio, voting record), R-La., who said Friday that when he learned of the e-mail exchanges 10 to 11 months ago, he called the teen's parents. Alexander told the Ruston Daily Leader, "We also notified the House leadership that there might be a potential problem," a reference to the House's Republican leaders. AP 9/29/06

This guy should be in jail. He should be a registered sex offender. He won't, you know why? Because the Repugs are the party of moral turpitude. The Dems are turgid turtles too. Face it, they all like to have young fresh faced kids around them. Is anyone going to tell me that there hasn't been some page porking going on over the last few decades? The whole system is corrupt and not worth saving.

i got news for ya also, list 1 - 3 doesn't only involve brown people. the point i'm trying to make is that some ignits were fast in passing judgment to people of color and linking them to a particular crime. people are quick in stereotyping mexicans as to be illegals. i'm just giving them the same courtesy.

by the way, i, like many of us, don't like and will not tolerate illegal behavior, whether it's an immigration violation or otherwise.

I love the "deny, deny, deny" strategy. Looks even funnier now that the IM's have gotten out and the dude resigned.

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Jason Kello, a spokesman for Foley's campaign, portrayed the controversy as a political attack.

"There have not been any allegations made by ANYONE except by Tim Mahoney and the Democrats who are attempting to misrepresent a series of innocent communications to prop up a failing political campaign," Kello said in a statement.

"This is nothing more than a political attack and an attempt at the worst kind of character assassination."

The report from the Republican-led House Government Affairs Committee stated that Abramoff had as many as 485 contacts with the White House, and prime among his lobbying targets was former White House political director Ken Mehlman, and Bush's adviser Karl Rove.

Of those 485 contacts, 345 were described as meetings or other in-person contacts; 71 were described as phone conversations and 69 were e-mail exchanges.

The records detailed in the recent report span from Jan. 2001 to Mar. 2004. In Jan. of 2006, Abramoff pleaded guilty to four counts of conspiracy, one count of mail fraud and one count of tax evasion.

Anybody who has to self-impose some fascistic set of principles upon him or herself (i.e., anybody associated with some puritanical movement like the christian right) probably has some deep emotional problems arising from something s/he considers perverse, from pedophilia, homosexuality, S&M, beastiality, etc. I'm not surprised at all that priests molest kids, televangelists get caught with sleezy prostitutes, and holy roller male politicians are hitting on teenaged boys. I think that's all as predictable as school shootings virtually always happening in some idyllic small town or suburban "I just cannot believe it happened here!!!" type of setting.